DBA Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the South West region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 76 95 71
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -24
Contract jobs requiring a DBA 42 48 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 2.015% 1.470% 1.890%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.138% 1.583% 2.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 23 28
Average daily rate £463 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.30% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £215 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £410 £414
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 9
Average hourly rate - £25.75 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.93%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+0.97% -14.16%
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1964 3033 2599
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 94.24% 92.89% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1174 1821 1288
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £228 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 190 241
Average hourly rate £15.40 £22.50 £21.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.55% +5.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £37.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
DBA
England

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DBA across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South West DBA Jobs Demand Trend

DBA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DBA across the South West region.

South West DBA Daily Rate Trend

DBA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DBA across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South West DBA Daily Rate Histogram

DBA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DBA across the South West region.

South West DBA Hourly Rate Trend

DBA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Somerset +11 9 £525 -
Bristol +13 7 £313 +19.04%
Wiltshire -7 5 £450 +50.00%
Dorset +1 4 - -
Gloucestershire +24 3 £353 +8.46%
Devon -7 1 £200 -38.46%
DBA
England

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited DBA in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with DBA in their job title.

1 42 (54.55%) SQL
2 34 (44.16%) SQL Server
3 33 (42.86%) Oracle
4 19 (24.68%) Oracle 11g
4 19 (24.68%) Security Cleared
5 18 (23.38%) Linux
6 17 (22.08%) Oracle 10g
7 16 (20.78%) Oracle RAC
8 15 (19.48%) SQL Server 2008
8 15 (19.48%) Netezza
8 15 (19.48%) UNIX
9 14 (18.18%) T-SQL
10 13 (16.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (15.58%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (14.29%) Migration
13 10 (12.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (12.99%) Windows
13 10 (12.99%) Shell Script
13 10 (12.99%) Oracle Certification
14 8 (10.39%) Oracle EBS
14 8 (10.39%) Replication
14 8 (10.39%) Oracle RMAN
15 7 (9.091%) SC Cleared
15 7 (9.091%) Oracle EBS R12
15 7 (9.091%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 7 (9.091%) SQL Server 2012
15 7 (9.091%) SLA
15 7 (9.091%) MySQL
15 7 (9.091%) ETL

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited DBA in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (7.792%) Middleware
2 4 (5.195%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.896%) WebCenter
4 1 (1.299%) LAMP
4 1 (1.299%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (7.792%) Oracle 10gAS
2 5 (6.494%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (5.195%) WebLogic
4 3 (3.896%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (1.299%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.299%) Apache
5 1 (1.299%) IIS
Business Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (9.091%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (6.494%) Oracle 11i
4 4 (5.195%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.896%) SAN
2 2 (2.597%) NAS
3 1 (1.299%) Network Security
3 1 (1.299%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (44.16%) SQL Server
2 19 (24.68%) Oracle 11g
3 17 (22.08%) Oracle 10g
4 15 (19.48%) SQL Server 2008
5 13 (16.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (15.58%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (12.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (9.091%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 7 (9.091%) SQL Server 2012
8 7 (9.091%) MySQL
8 7 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
9 6 (7.792%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (3.896%) SQL Server 2005
11 2 (2.597%) DB2
11 2 (2.597%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (2.597%) OLTP
11 2 (2.597%) SQL Server 2000
11 2 (2.597%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.597%) Oracle Exadata
12 1 (1.299%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.597%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (6.494%) Finance
2 1 (1.299%) Banking
2 1 (1.299%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Replication
2 4 (5.195%) Clustering
3 3 (3.896%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.38%) Linux
2 15 (19.48%) UNIX
3 10 (12.99%) Windows
4 3 (3.896%) AIX
5 2 (2.597%) Solaris
5 2 (2.597%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.29%) Migration
2 7 (9.091%) ETL
3 4 (5.195%) PRINCE2
3 4 (5.195%) ITIL
3 4 (5.195%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (5.195%) Data Migration
4 3 (3.896%) Incident Management
4 3 (3.896%) Information Management
5 2 (2.597%) E-business
5 2 (2.597%) ITSM
5 2 (2.597%) Identity Management
5 2 (2.597%) Service Management
5 2 (2.597%) BPEL
5 2 (2.597%) Scrum
5 2 (2.597%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (2.597%) Database Security
5 2 (2.597%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (2.597%) Database Tuning
6 1 (1.299%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (54.55%) SQL
2 14 (18.18%) T-SQL
3 10 (12.99%) Shell Script
4 3 (3.896%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (24.68%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.99%) Oracle Certification
3 7 (9.091%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.494%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.195%) MCSA
5 4 (5.195%) OCA
6 3 (3.896%) OCP
7 1 (1.299%) Degree
7 1 (1.299%) MCDBA
7 1 (1.299%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.091%) SLA
2 2 (2.597%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.299%) HL7
3 1 (1.299%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 16 (20.78%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (10.39%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.299%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (1.299%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 6 (7.792%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.299%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.299%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 33 (42.86%) Oracle
2 15 (19.48%) Netezza
3 4 (5.195%) Siebel
4 3 (3.896%) Hyperion
5 2 (2.597%) Informatica
5 2 (2.597%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.299%) IBM
6 1 (1.299%) NetApp
6 1 (1.299%) Veritas
6 1 (1.299%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.299%) Business Objects
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Rate: From £250 to £330 per day
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Proven technical experience in Oracle OLTP (On-line Transaction Processing) and Data Warehousing environments. Experience of Oracle Weblogic/Fusion is a big advantage... Proven technical experience of Oracle...
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Oracle DBA 11g - Weblogic / Middleware Stack / SQL Server
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Proven technical experience of Oracle 10g Application Server Forms and Reports Configuration... Experience of Oracle 10g Data Pump... Experience of Oracle Fusion Middleware beneficial... SQL Server Clustering and...
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Oracle DBA - Bournemouth
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Keywords - Oracle Database Administrator, DBA, Oracle OLTP, Data Warehousing, Oracle 10g Application Server Forms and Reports Configuration, Oracle Application Server (iAS 9.0.4 or above), Oracle 10g...
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Rate: £350 - £390 per day
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Oracle DBA/Oracle Database Administrator- Oracle EBS R12-Oracle
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The Oracle DBA/Oracle Database Administrator will be responsible for providing technical support and expertise on an Oracle R12 e-Business suite including SSO, SOA, Oracle OBIEE, Siebel,...
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